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I’ve moved my blog! 13 Feb 2012 | 05:30 am
Hi – I’ve moved all of my old blogs to my domain: http://ginaminks.com/wordpress/ Please follow me there, I won’t be updating this blog anymore. Here is the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/gm...
Content cost and creation – and how it relates to community building 18 Jan 2012 | 04:01 am
During a meeting at the Dell Storage Forum in London Hans De Leenheer, one our invited bloggers, told me something to this effect: You are Miss Social Media. You have to make it so we are able to kee...
Dell Storage Forum 2012 London – the day before 11 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
Today is the first day of the Dell Storage Forum in London. Yesterday lots of people started to arrive, and I was amazed at how many people wrote pre-show blog posts: vInfrastructure: Italian | Engli...
Time to pack your bags for the Dell Storage Forum in London! 7 Jan 2012 | 07:49 am
Watching this recap video of the Dell Storage Forum in Orlando made me a little nostalgic. So, Just like I did for the inaugural Dell Storage Forum in Orlando last year, I thought I’d write a post wit...
Identity crisis: I’m not a marketer 29 Dec 2011 | 05:33 am
Ok, in full disclosure, the title of this blog post is misleading. If you know me, you know I protest vigorously any time someone calls me a marketer. Hell, I did it during my yearly review. If you re...
Dell Storage Community at VMworld Copenhagen 24 Oct 2011 | 03:50 am
The Dell Storage crew was at VMworld Copenhagen last week. I would have done my normal live blogging and tweeting, but I had technical issues. So I did things the old-fashioned way….I used a pen and t...
How many times a day should I tweet? 16 Oct 2011 | 03:02 am
Someone asked me yesterday in a meeting: how many times a day should my people be tweeting? He has been asked to provide his team’s plan for social media. He was having a hard time wrapping his head ...
Beer: the essential ingredient for successful community building 7 Oct 2011 | 11:15 am
I don’t know if it was Bitnorth, spending the last couple of nights communing in Barcelona with other members of the internal Dell Storage community, or the tweets coming from my friend Ed Saipetch at...
Symantec Vision Session: Winning with Dell Storage + Symantec 6 Oct 2011 | 10:49 pm
Note: This is my (almost) live blog from yesterday’s session with Andrew Corcoran & Ed Casmer. Traditional dcs are too rigid for evolving biz needs IT has too spend most of the $$ supporting existin...
Symantec Vision Session: Dell Storage and Symantec enable the full benefits of server virtualization 5 Oct 2011 | 07:56 pm
Note: these are my (mostly) unedited session notes. The session focused on backup best practices for virtualization. Other live blogs from VISION can be found here and here. 70-90% of backups are not...